Dec 29 2006
The Numbers Game
When I was a teenager, I did a fair amount of listening on the shortwave radio bands. One of the most intriguing things I ever ran across was a very strong signal of a male voice announcing numbers in Spanish at even intervals. It lasted for a few minutes then the signal dropped. I ran into this one other time except it was in English instead. I did some research on this and found out that these “numbers stations” were thought to be coded messages for spies from different countries around the world. Now, all these years later I see they still get mention such as in this Washington Post article. You would think all these years and with advances in technology there would be a better way to do something like this.